White House Weighs Kicking Out Sebastian Gorka

[riversedge]

Source: Huff post




The president admires Sebastian Gorka for his fiery TV performances, but his ties to far-right organizations are making him more liability than asset, administration sources say.


04.28.17 3:40 PM ET

The Trump administration is actively exploring options to remove controversial national security aide Sebastian Gorka from the White House and place him at another federal agency, multiple sources tell The Daily Beast.

Two senior administration officials familiar with the situation say it is exploring a new role for Gorka elsewhere in the administration. Another said he has been entirely excluded from day-to-day policy-making at the National Security Council in the meantime.

Gorka’s looming departure from the White House, which one of the sources described as imminent, comes amid mounting controversy over his involvement with a far-right Hungarian group notorious for its collaboration with the Nazi regime during the second world war.
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According to two senior administration officials, the White House has been seeking a position for Gorka that does not require a security clearance. One said it was looking to classify him as a member of the federal government’s senior executive service.....................

Read more: http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2017/04/28/white-house-weighs-kicking-out-sebastian-gorka.html

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Per the article, Gorka has no security clearance as of last month. Yet, he is roaming around the WH with no duties.




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Gone?

[TrollBuster9090]

1. I wouldn't say he was wandering around the WH with no official duties. His duties are to...

his duties are to phone up REAL terrorism experts and try to intimidate them when they point out the fact that HE'S A FAKE!

This dumbass has never done anything except be a Faux News 'pundit,' and an editor at BrainFart for Steve Bannon.

[Judi Lynn]

2. Why bother? He's their kind of guy. Maybe he, too, can kill someone in broad daylight, like Trump.

After all, Trump folks are pure Teflon.

[Gothmog]

3. One less Nazi in the trump white house

[mopinko]

4. they are prolly trying to find him a spot where

he still has access to secrets to send to pootie poot.

[not fooled]

5. Waiting for them to try blaming President Obama

for this fraud, in three, two, one....

[Raven]

6. And the Republicans talk about government waste....jeeze! n/t

[riversedge]

7. Gorka and Trump appear on Hannity, Aug. 18, 2016. Fox News Lots of history of the Snake oil man...

http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2017/04/28/white-house-weighs-kicking-out-sebastian-gorka.html


The Hungarian Rise And Fall Of Sebastian Gorka

Before Sebastian Gorka was an adviser to President Donald Trump, he was a man with a dream to rise to the top of Hungarian politics. It didn’t quite work out.

Originally posted on April 26, 2017, at 8:31 p.m.
Updated on April 26, 2017, at 8:39 p.m.


Mitch Prothero


Deputy assistant to President Trump Sebastian Gorka participates in a discussion during the Conservative Political Action Conference, Feb. 24, 2017, in National Harbor, Maryland.
Alex Wong / Getty Images


BUDAPEST — Sebastian Gorka — national security aide and all-round Donald Trump attack dog — failed his way upwards to the White House, having been denied security clearance to work in the Hungarian parliament, defeated in a local mayoral race in the 2000s, and widely dismissed as an opportunist.

Gorka, a deputy assistant to the president who focuses on counterterrorism, was denied security clearance in 2002 to serve on a committee investigating the then-Hungarian prime minister’s past as a communist secret police official during Soviet times. That denial, local security officials and politicians told BuzzFeed News, effectively ended his career as a national security expert in Hungary.

Washington’s standards may be lower than Budapest’s. Gorka has been widely criticised for his lack of qualifications and connections with fringe political groups since joining the Trump administration. In the past few months, his ties with far-right Hungarian groups and past as an editor at Breitbart News have raised questions about both his ideological views and his judgment. But, back in Hungary in the 2000s, he wasn't seen as an extremist, but instead a self-promoter, who exaggerated claims about his past, including his work for the British intelligence services.

“Sebastian Gorka is not a Nazi or a security threat because he is some sort of secret British agent,” said a member of the Hungarian counter intelligence service, who has reviewed the files a security background check on Gorka from 2002. “Gorka is, how do you say in English — a peddler of snake oil.”

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Gorka and Trump appear on Hannity, Aug. 18, 2016.
Fox News


Gorka's rise offers a glimpse at how permeable the top strata of American power is in the age of Trump. It seems to be easier to rise in the Trump White House than it was in the newly free Hungarian government at the turn of the century. The Trump administration is full of figures like Gorka, plausible TV talking heads with no particular expertise. His wafer-thin counterterrorism résumé, associations with the political fringes in Hungary, and questions about the depth of his experience are a particularly vivid illustration of what it takes to get the ear of a president famous for adopting the view of the last person with whom he spoke.
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Link to tweet

[not fooled]

9. Well, no surprise that there is affinity between him and dump

Grifters of a feather...grift together.

[pnwmom]

8. On top of everything else, this ex-Breitbart guy has a fake Phd.

By Professor Andrew Reynolds
Professor of Political Science
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill



http://reynolds.web.unc.edu/gorka/

I started digging and it didn’t take long to find out that Gorka is a fraud – a charlatan of the most brazen hue – a snake-oil salesman whose supposed Ph.D dissertation would have never passed muster in America or Britain and to put the cherry on the cake was approved by a fraudulent panel of examiners. The polar opposite of Lt. Gen H.R. McMasters celebrated dissertation awarded by UNC Chapel Hill.

Gorka is Hungarian-English. He gained an American passport in 2012. His nationalist parents fled to London from Budapest in 1956. His dissertation – Content and End-State-based Alteration in the Practice of Political Violence since the End of the Cold War: the difference between the terrorism of the Cold War and the terrorism of al Qaeda: the rise of the “transcendental terrorist” was apparently granted in 2007 by Corvinus University of Budapest. The tract is long on Islamaphobia and the unsubstantiated claims of the polemicist but short on theory, evidence or academic rigor. Corvinus is not an institution with a profile, so I looked: sadly it doesn’t even make the top 1,000 in the Times Higher Education World University Rankings.

Even Gorka’s attendance poses a mystery. When exactly was he a graduate student at the university? Did he take classes? Did he receive any training in Islam or Islamic studies? His CV notes that he left Hungary in 2004 to work for the US Defense Department in Germany and then in 2008 relocated to the US. There is no evidence that he ever returned to live and study in Budapest.

SNIP

If that is true, we are left in sum with a degree that was awarded in absence – on the basis of a dissertation without basic political science methodological underpinnings – and apparently from an examining committee of two of Gorka’s diplomat friends, with only BA degrees; along with an old family friend, Schöpflin.

In sum, Gorka’s Ph.D is about as legitimate as if he had been awarded it by Trump University. Facts matter, but so does the gathering, synthesizing and creation of knowledge that is what we call ‘education.’ If you fake a Ph.D you are faking your credentials. He delivers provable untruths to the American public but is believed by many because he presents himself as an esteemed scholar of Islam. Gorka would never have got away with such chutzpah in the UK. Experience and scholarship work in harness to produce answers to questions. When you have neither experience nor training you are likely to not merely get the answers wrong, but not even have an inkling of which questions to ask.

[not fooled]

10. It's an "Alternative Ph.D."

This story just bothers me on so many levels, because it epitomizes the dysfunction and fraud of the dump regime.

An unqualified extremist crackpot weasels his way into dump's inner circle and ends up with access to our nation's most sensitive information. Smug and arrogant, he struts and preens in the media espousing radical, un-American ideas. He is a racist of the most extreme variety, virtually a modern-day Nazi. His image and supposed competence are built on a pack of lies. And yet we are supposed to just accept that this maladministration has a clue as to what it is doing, instead of being aghast that such incompetence and duplicity is now infesting the White House.

Gorka the fraud's downfall can't come too soon or with too much publicity. Behold, dump voters, what your idol has wrought.

[riversedge]

12. Thanks for the information. Sure looks fishy that is for sure.

[Squinch]

11. But then who will speak for the Nazis? Oh the humanity! Think of the children!

(come on. do I really need the sarcasm thing?)

[Hekate]

13. "Gorka is, how do you say in English, a peddler of snake oil." Oh well, that explains it.